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**FILE** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanied by President Obama, meets Sept. 12, 2012, with State Department personnel in the courtyard of the State Department building in Washington after the president spoke at the White House concerning the recent deaths of Americans in Libya. (Associated Press)

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A speed camera on New York Avenue Northeast in Washington (The Washington Times) **FILE**

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Robert Matthew Mason Jr, 87, from San Francisco, and Sgt. Maj. Michael Barrett (cq) share a laugh during the Montford Pointe Marines Parade at the Marine Barracks Washington on Thursday, June 28, 2012, in Washington D.C. Approximately 20,000 African American Marine recruits where trained at Montford Pointe when the military was still segregated. The serving members received the Congressional Gold Medal for their service. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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This photo taken May 30, 2012 shows a view of the Watergate complex from the top floor of the Watergate Office Building in Washington. Forty years ago police in Washington arrested five men breaking in to the Democratic National Committee offices. The name of the complex they were breaking into became infamous: the Watergate. These days, though, unless you know where to look, there’s little marking the location of the 1972 crime that ultimately led to the resignation of President Nixon. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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** FILE ** Former Secretary of State Colin Powell attends the unveiling of the official portraits of former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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**FILE** Jeffrey Neely, the central figure in a General Services Administration spending scandal, sits at the witness table as the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigates wasteful spending and excesses by GSA during a 2010 Las Vegas conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Voting signs cover the handrails at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times) ** FILE **

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Department of Justice headquarters in Washington (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** The Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Washington (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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The FBI headquarters in Washington is seen here on Feb. 3, 2012. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing titled "Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (right), Kentucky Republican, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 29, 2011, as Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, looks on. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** First lady Michelle Obama sits with toddlers as they have their lunch at CentroNia, a bilingual child care facility in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2011, where she announced Let's Move! Child Care, an effort to raise healthy eating and living for young children. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama introduces (from left) Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Adm. James A. Winnefeld, the new vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs; and Gen. Ray Odierno, the next Army chief of staff, during a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House in Washington on Monday, May 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Illustration: Debt tsunami by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

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Marsha Zamperini, of Washington, folds her hands in prayer during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, on Rhode Island Avenue in northwest Washington, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Wax figures of Presidents John Adams (left) and Thomas Jefferson are part of a new exhibit at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Washington. The new gallery presents wax figures of all 44 U.S. presidents (43 figures) together in the nation's capital for the first time. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Barack Obama presents Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the 2010 Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Flanked by physicist Edward Teller (left) and Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, director of the Strategic Defense Initiative, President Reagan arrives to address a conference marking the first five years of the SDI program on March 14, 1988, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton boards a plane at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington for a trip to Haiti on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)